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Newspaper
Galesville Transcript
Location
Galesville, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1860
Page
5
The piece notes how Longfellow and earlier poets share the same themes and rhythms, citing muffled drums and the Psalm voice. It compares modern lines with an elegy by Henry King and Bernard’s hymn to Jerusalem, arguing human hopes and feelings express identically across ages.
A reflective short verse explores the poet’s line about weakness and praise. It recalls cherished childhood play places and memories, inviting a deep personal response found within every reader’s heart.
A reflective piece recalls childhood rambles along a river with May violets Lady's Slipper and frost grapes. It cherishes youth memories, nature scenes, and schooldays, noting friends who shared joys and sorrows, some now in celestial gardens, others facing present cares. Woven with poetic nostalgia, it closes with initials L. B.F.
Freeman moved his law office to a new residence nearly opposite KR A Odell's store, signaling a relocation within the same town. The brief item notes the office shift without additional details or dates.
Professor Bartlett explains meteors as planet like bodies that orbit the sun and occasionally approach Earth. When Earth and a meteor align closely these bodies enter the atmosphere at high speed, compressing air to heat and fuse their crusts, shedding their melted surface and leaving bright, scattered debris along their paths.
Hood’s famous poem Song of the Shirt appeared anonymously in Punch’s 1843 Christmas number. It sparked wild widespread discussion about its authorship, with Dickens among those suspected. Hood later acknowledged authorship, noting its international translations and enduring popularity among the poor who adapted it to their own tunes.
Mrs Harriet Beecher Stowe has just returned from a European tour and is at Andover working on a new book to restore her reputation as an authoress. Lyman Beecher, aged eighty four, lives in Brooklyn near his son, in good health and spirits, with slight deafness and weakness but remains bright and hopeful.
A New Orleans paper recounts a tale of a New York schoolgirl posting for a husband and receiving replies. One man posed as a rich South family heir, deceived her into an elopement to Cincinnati, failed to marry her, and left her ruined. She attempted suicide but was stopped, illustrating how such anonymous flirtations tempt youth.
A handsome young Yankee pedlar wooed a buxom widow in Pennsylvania. He cited two impediments to their union with his claim of lacking means to set up a retail store. They parted, and the widow sent the
A pedlar, after exchanging a check for ample means, reunites with a smiling fair companion who inquires about his other assets. The pedlar reveals he now has another wife, exposing a deception tied to his stock and store.
Four boys drowned at Mosine yesterday while bathing on a sand bar. They undressed, entered a deep hole formed by the river eddy, and perished. The two victims were sons of W. Buatr of Baq. and the other two sons of Mr. Mrremet.
Dr Johnson is introduced to a reverend prelate who seeks conversation. As they walk, the bishop laments a lack of good opening lines. Johnson, not inclined to chat, responds with a wry remark about the trees growing large and strong. They find humor in the bishop's comment.
A philosophical meditation on beauty tied to morality in nature and art. The speaker asks whether nature, literature, poetry, and the fine arts gain their highest beauty when imbued with moral associations and when genius presents these ideals for universal admiration. The piece suspects patriotism, heroism, philanthropy, disinterestedness, magnanimity, and martyrdom as the core virtues celebrated by nations.
Nothing is more dissimilar than natural and acquired politeness. The first is a willing abnegation of self, the second a compelled recouestion of others.
A playful note remarks Mans.-Mars is awaiting inspection at castat o'clock. He is nearer Earth than for decades, about thirty seven million miles away, a modest gap. If travel were possible by railroad at thirty miles an hour, it would take roughly 140 years to reach him, sparking a joking invitation to journey.
A saying notes a man should not be ashamed to admit he was wrong, framing it as wiser today than yesterday and urging honest self reflection for growth.
Manx Quinine causes dizziness loss of sight ringing in ears and insanity. It constipates bowels locking up humors and causing ague cake liver complaint dropsy and consumption. One remedy only in medicines cures these diseases Dr Christie’s Ague Balsam acts on stomach and bowels to obviate and cure. Journal notice.
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